The ISEC7 SPHERE must allow the use of DOD PKI established certificate authorities for verification of the establishment of protected sessions.

Untrusted Certificate Authorities (CA) can issue certificates, but they may be issued by organizations or individuals that seek to compromise DOD systems or by organizations with insufficient security controls. If the CA used for verifying the certificate is not a DOD-approved CA, trust of this CA has not been established.

The DOD will only accept PKI certificates obtained from a DOD-approved internal or external certificate authority. Reliance on CAs for the establishment of secure sessions includes, for example, the use of TLS certificates.

This requirement focuses on communications protection for the application session rather than for the network packet.

This requirement applies to applications that utilize communications sessions. This includes, but is not limited to, web-based applications and Service-Oriented Architectures (SOA).

Log in to the ISEC7 SPHERE Server. Navigate to %Install Drive%/Program Files/ISEC7 SPHERE/tomcat/bin. Run tomcat9w.bat and select the JAVA tab in the window that opens. Under "Java options" verify "-Djavax.net.ssl.trustStoreType=Windows-ROOT" is listed.

If "-Djavax.net.ssl.trustStoreType=Windows-ROOT" is not listed, this is a finding.

Log in to the ISEC7 SPHERE Server. Navigate to %Install Drive%/Program Files/ISEC7 SPHERE/tomcat/bin. Run tomcat9w.bat and select the JAVA tab in the window that opens. Under "Java options" add "-Djavax.net.ssl.trustStoreType=Windows-ROOT" and select "OK". Restart the ISEC7 SPHERE Web service.